From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 6 01:58:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0C216A403 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4806613C45E for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2007 01:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l361wH5u020717 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:58:17 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.10.45] (c-67-187-172-183.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.187.172.183]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l361wHAt019699 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:58:17 -0700 Message-ID: <4615A924.4080108@u.washington.edu> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:57:56 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070325) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <20070405103708.GC842@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.3.0.289146, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.0.283055, Antispam-Data: 2007.4.5.184834 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __STOCK_PHRASE_7 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: Do we need this junk? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:58:18 -0000 Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 4/5/07, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> [-stable removed since it's not relevant there] >> >> On 2007-Apr-05 04:58:17 -0500, Nikolas Britton >> wrote: >> >Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? >> > >> >legacyfree1# cd dev/ >> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include >> ... >> >legacyfree1# grep -irsn mca ./ | grep -i include >> ... >> >> Why do you believe anything in the list might need to be removed? >> > > I'd like to also add that 6-STABLE should be the last branch to support: > 1. ISA / EISA > 2. PC98 Platform. > 3. i486 > 4. i586 > > 98.83% of us have at least a i686 and 62.6% of us have at least a i786 > (SSE2) processor. > > Arch Break Down > i386 5586 94.02% > amd64 305 5.13% > sparc64 30 0.50% > > x86 Break Down: > i486 30 0.074% > ??? 51 0.125% > i586 404 0.995% > i686 14724 36.230% > i786 25431 62.576% > ----------------------------------- > Tot: 40640 100% > > data provided by bsdstats.org Bad idea. A lot of routers using pfsense are running a modified version of FreeBSD 6.2, and are typically running Soekris hardware, which is i586 branded hardware. -Garrett